Country House Definition

noun
A residence in the country, especially a mansion or other large dwelling on a country estate.
American Heritage
(UK) A weekend and holiday residence outside of the city.
1909 One of those utterly tedious amusements one only finds at an English country house on an English country Sunday. I don't think any one at all morally responsible for what he or she does at an English country house. "” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, Act 3.
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(US) A second home.
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Other Word Forms of Country House

Noun

Singular:
country house
Plural:
country-houses

Country House Sentence Examples

  • For the next ten years she lived at Nohant, near La Chatre in Berri, the country house of her grandmother.

  • It is celebrated from its connexion with Catullus, for the large ruins of a Roman villa on the promontory have been supposed to be his country house.

  • As this proved a failure, he had her put to death at her country house.

  • His father, who was a wealthy man and possessed at any rate a smattering of Greek, Latin and French, was thought to have demeaned himself by marrying the daughter of an Andover tradesman, who afterwards retired to a country house near Reading, where young Jeremy spent many happy days.

  • Cobden was thus relegated to private life, and retiring to his country house at Dunford, he spent his time in perfect contentment in cultivating his land and feeding his pigs.

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Words Starting With C and Ending With E

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